Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Assemblywoman Pam Harris Arrested by the Feds

While we have been focused on things like who thinks Capano and Eaton are good, bad or indifferent, or whether the Luthmann rap is a miscarriage of justice, the real world keeps turning and real important things are happening --- like having our local 46th A.D. representative in the NYS Legislature getting swept up by a Federal Prosecutor

According
to a report in the Daily News --- "Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris has been
indicted on charges of fraud and obstructing justice.... Brooklyn
federal prosecutors unsealed the charges Tuesday against the pol....
Harris was arrested this morning and will be arraigned later today in
Brooklyn federal court.... She was elected in November 2015 and her
district includes Coney Island, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights...."
(See "Brooklyn pol Pamela Harris indicted on fraud, obstruction of
justice charges" by Andrew Keshner, 1/9/18, NY Daily News/
Politics [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/brooklyn-pol-indicted-fraud-charges-justice-obstruction-article-1.3746374]).

BACKFILL & WHAT I POINTED OUT BACK THEN: THE “WHY WASN’T ANYBODY LISTENING TO WHAT I SAID WHEN I FIRST SAID IT” EDITION

REMEMBER WHEN PAM HARRIS REALLY WAS MARTY GOLDEN’S GIRL ---- I SAID IT THEN AND IT NEEDS SAYING AGAIN

THE SAME INSIDERS CABAL THAT RIGGED THE >>> ILLEGAL <<< SHIFT OF POWER IN THE BROOKLYN GOP TO THAT PUT SOCK PUPPET TED GHORRA INTO THE COUNTY CHAIRMANSHIP ALSO SABOTAGED ANY CHANCE OF ELECTING A REPUBLICAN TO THE ASSEMBLY FROM THE 46TH AD --- INSTEAD THEY PASSIVELY BACKED MARTY GOLDEN’S FAVORITE DEMOCRAT OF THE MOMENT, PAM HARRIS --- EVEN THOUGH EVERYBODY KNEW SHE WAS DIRTY AS A STREET WHORE'S DRAWERS

I won’t repeat myself --- it’s all there in my Saturday, October 24, 2015 post on this blog: “Playing the game, Two Degrees Of Joe Hynes, is an interesting way to track down some of the current political alignments in Southwest Brooklyn — And it even might be a useful road map for the new U.S. Attorney for Brooklyn.” Yep, I pointed out several of the better-known scams that these folks were running, if not together, certainly with a wink and a nod and a “by your leave. ” It’s a regular “Who’s Who” oin Southwest Brooklyn; Including: Pam Harris and Marty Golden; and Marty Golden’s top level insiders, Jack Malone, Larry Morrish, and -- looky, looky, looky -- even Richard Luthmann’s very recent nemesis, Dennis Quirk….. (See below at 10/24/15 [http://galewynmassey.blogspot.com/2015/10/playing-game-two-degrees-of-joe-hynes.html]

Capano does live in the 46th and ran for the seat in 2008 and make the case that the man he lost to (Brook-Krasny) and now his successor were both crooks..a nice story to tell..voters will now have a second chance to make the right choice..

Kassar will decide who the Republican candidate will or won't be --- but don't be surprised if he then picks one of the Democratic Party candidates for the Conservative Party nod. His most recent MO in the 46th AD has been backstabbing.

NBC NEWS AND NY TIMES GIVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE CHARGES AGAINST PAMELA HARRIS

Both the NY Times and NBC News New York have filled in lots of details about what Pamela Harris has been charged with by the Feds. It all reads, sounds and looks like Pamela Harris was getting background material for a book "How to be a Corrupt Politician Trying Hard to be Caught" while also pocketing a load of cash.

The NBC News4 video link is really worth a look; and the NBC News print story that goes along with the video is also very good (See "NY Assemblywoman Stole Sandy Money from FEMA, Tried to Cover it Up: Prosecutors" by Jonathan Dienst & R. Darren Price, 1/9/18, NBC News4 NY [https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Brooklyn-Assemblywoman-Arrested-Sandy-Relief-Build-it-Back-468453663.html]).

The "other" (non-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights) end of the 46th AD should not be ignored. Forget Storobin, he's a nut; and politically has been nothing but a broken old valise for a very long time; but somebody with real community ties out of Brighton Beach or the nearby beachy areas toward Coney Island or high up in Bath Beach should be considered, especially if there is going to be another primary fight between the Goldens and the anti-Goldens, because an Assembly primary and a State Senate primary is even easier than just a State Senate primary.

The Conservatives are very friendly with Kate Cucco. Don't be surprised if they nominate someone different from the Republican Candidate to be a spoiler in order to help her. The only person in Brooklyn left who takes Storobin seriously is Jerry Kassar. Storobin has shown his true colors after losing several times and is not even liked by some of his former most staunch supporters.

Storobin won ONE special election by about five votes against an opponent who was trying to campaign from the bed of a hospital room for the final month of the campaign. When he ran in a real election for the senate seat, Storobin got crushed in a landslide when he faced a lesser known opponent who didn't have to campaign out of a hospital room. When he tried running for City Council he got crushed like a grape against an opponent with the IQ of an imbecile. He tried propping up his friend in a Democratic primary and his friend got single digits. The only people who care if Storobin is running are his old friends who are getting ready to campaign door to door against him if he runs.

Liam had the full weight of the Conservative party and Ted Ghorra and the Republican party behind the scenes backing him all the way and John Q still crushed him. Even a lot people loyal to Q now realize that Liam and Jerry stabbed him in the back and threw the election to Brannan. The factions are already divided between certain candidates and another GOP civil war is looming.

Storobin is a joke. Capano took on Gentile a legend. Storobin claim to fame is beating a man by five votes who was confined to a hospital for most of the campaign. Every other time he ran he got embarrassed and crushed.

TO >>> ALMOST ALL <<< OF THE COMMENTERS ABOVE THAT COMMENTED AFTER MY LAST "UPDATE AND BACKFILL" --- WHAT A LOAD OF VAPID NONSENSE.....

It certainly looks like many you from all sides of the 2017 GOP fight to pick a City Council candidate still have a lot of piss and vinegar in you. Well, isn't that special.....

TO ALL OF THE NON-ALIGNED FOLKS OUT THERE, WHO HAVE TO ENDURE ALL OF THIS NONSENSE BACK-AND-FORTH

I wish there were better words to use than "pathetic" (I know Craig Eaton likes that one), or my favorites "feckless" and "jejune," or, very much on point, just plain "stupid"; however, sometimes words fail to convey very deep and involuntary revulsion adequately. I think that this is one of those times.....

Liam got embarrassed in 2013 when Cats almost won Brooklyn, and besides Staten Island which he won, Cats did miles better in Brooklyn than anywhere else. Liam is like Storobin, the only thing he has going for him is Jerry Kassar, the Quaglione people are livid with Kassar and it doesn't matter what Marty wants, if Q doesn't run they will find a candidate to settle the score.

Cats lost Brooklyn by 100 votes while he lost Queens by 5,000 and Manhattan by 10,000. GM can delete all he wants to help Liam but those are the facts. Liam got embarassed and now Kassar wants him or Storobin as the candidate to make sure Kate Cucco wins the seat and throws him some of the no snow jobs he needs desperately for his cronies.

Read the Brooklyn Papers this week, Chairman Ghorra will be quotes about everything happening with Harris..Read the NYC papers Chairs Andrea Catsimatidis and Ghorra will be quoted about the Governors race..Read the blogs, Eaton will be anonymously blogging..loser

Yea commenter at 4:11 obviously has no clue. Cats is Cuomo’s biggest suporter in the state. Teddy will support whoever Jerry tells him to as he makes sure Jerry’s lunch is still warm when it gets there.

Enough is enough. To all the Ghorra lovers out there, who posted that he was in Albany with you, that he had lunch with Ed Cox, that Cox appointed him and Andrea to run NYC, that they took pictures together, etc etc etc ad nauseum, please, oh please, get your facts straight and stop lying on this Blog, which is really becoming a waste of time to read.

Ghorra didnt even go to the County Chair Meeting in Albany. He sent Maureen Daly in his place. Please fact check this. I personally spoke to Cox's people on Tuesday and they confirmed this because I called them to discuss a candidate I have and I wanted to see what the NYC Chairs discussed in Albany. I was told "only Manhattan and Bronx chairs attended.

Lets try to be at least 10% factual. Check it out and you will see that the only CC who went were Andrea C and Mike Rendino. If you dont believe me, call one of them to confirm.

The above is fact - not fiction.

For those that claim they have pictures of Ghorra and Andrea etc, please post them. If not that is the real proof.

THE PRIOR FIVE COMMENTS WERE REPUBLISHED IN ORDER TO MAKE A CORRECTION IN MY PREVIOUS AND EARLIER COMMENT ABOVE, THE CONTENT IN ALL THE COMMENTS REMAINS THE SAME, AS DOES THE SEQUENCE OF THE COMMENTS, HOWEVER THE BLOGGER.COM TIME (NOT THE EST) IS NOT AS IT ORiGINALLY APPEARED --- THE TIMES AS THEY NOW APPEAR ARE ABOUT AN HOUR LATER THAN THE ORIGINAL TIMES POSTED BY BLOGGER.COM

I did some fact checking and Anonymous at 708 is correct. Gorra DIDNOT attend the meeting Monday. So all the posts about him and Andrea Cats are fabrications meant to make Gorra look like more than he is.

The fact is whether Ghorra went to Albany or not he still is one of the five NYC GOP chairs, as is Andrea Cats so they must and do work closely together. There is no way to deny this actual fact as much as Eaton and his 2 and only supporters (Capano and Gallo) on this blog and elsewhere would like to.In fact, Ghorra recently met with Andrea and John Cats over lunch to bury the hatchet and work closely together. Of course, all decided it was best to keep this from Craig and joked about it.

THANK YOU --- BUT --- YOU HURT YOUR CREDIBILITY AS A "FACT CHECKER" BY MISSPELLING MR. GHORRA'S NAME AS "GORRA"

In addition, since the original comment that first provided the info about Chairman Ghorra's non-attendance at the Albany meeting(s) in question was made by "Anonymous said ... January 10, 2018 at 7:08 PM," there is no way of knowing whether that comment and yours are not actually being made by only one person --- hence bootstrapping rather than really confirming.

Nonetheless, for what it's worth, your comment is advancing the narrative a bit, in spite of those shortcomings..... So, thank you for that.

A-Team, my ass! Neither one of them is on anybody's political A-list. Does either one of them know anything about anything? Ghorra still hasn't got a clue what power he has or how to use it; and the Cats woman doesn't even know how to dress for good sex or mediocre success.

The 46th AD should be a competitive district for a strong Republican candidate. In it, there are several areas that voted strongly Republican not that long ago, but I'll bet that no Republican candidate comes close to winning the Assembly seat in 2018.If the Republicans, can't win in the 46th AD, with or without Conservative Party backing, can anyone tell me why we need to have any Republican or Conservative Party in Brooklyn at all?

The "Queen of the Click" did a very funny take on Bob Capano's 2017 political moves and now getting his own column. The pictures of Bob with the balloon quotes are the best part. And the best of the best is one of Bob and Quaglione arguing who is more like Marty Golden. LMAO

UPDATE & ANALYSIS: THE "WHICH DEMOCRATS' BLOOD WILL BE ON THE FLOOR" EDITION

GIVEN THE ALMOST CERTAINTY THAT 46TH AD, ASSEMBLYMEMBER PAM HARRIS WILL BE DOING HER GUEST STINT IN "ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK" --- EITHER LATER IN THE UPCOMING SEASON OR EARLY IN THE NEXT; THE QUESTION COMES UP AS TO HOW MANY OF HER STRONGEST POLITICAL SUPPORTERS WILL HAVE TO SACRIFICE THEIR POUND OF FLESH AS WELL

THE WORD IS OUT THAT JUSTIN BRANNAN IS CHANNELING HIS INNER "DEXTER" WHEN IT COMES TO FELLOW COUNCILMAN MARK TREYGER.....

Here's somebody, who sounds like a Democrat with an keen interest to express, that wants us to know his particular take on all of this: (I am paraphrasing this interested [Bay Ridge ???] Dem) Let's say that Pam Harris was pretty close to being Democrat Councilman Mark Treyger's hand-picked sock puppet for one the NYS Assembly seats inside his district (largely overlapping into now-Councilman Brannan's 43rd District). A couple of years back, Treyger went to war with then-only-District-Leader Brannan, and Treyger and his club's candidate won out, with help from Congressman Jeffries, State Senator Savino, and the old warhorse Wild Bill Colton from the adjoining 47th AD.

During the Democrat's selection process in 2015, attempts to tar Pam Harris as corrupt were shouted down as racist, first by Harris herself, then by the others --- especially Treyger and Savino.

Now Brannan and his crew are well prepared to take a much stronger stance during the 46th AD selection process, arguing that their initial opposition to Pam Harris, because of their early highlighting of her known scams, gives them the moral high ground over the others that actively turned a blind eye to it.

More important, the Bay Ridge Dems also will come into this year's process being the biggest political stakeholder in the 46th AD. And given the likelihood that there will be no special election between now and normal petitioning, almost certainly they will be petitioning for and supporting their own candidate for the 46th AD slot.

Capano didn’t fold when the cards didn’t come out the way he planned. He dealt himself a new deck of cards and won a bit more than anyone in Bay Ridge thought he would.

Capano switched to the Reform Party.

The Conservative Party played reindeer games without Capano.

Slowly Capano exposed them and some looked petty

Capano enjoyed the end of the race…….cause in the end he was like “How do you like them apples?”

Capano may smirk a little when someone mentions that he took votes away from……..

Bay Ridge saw Bob Capano as someone who isn’t interested in playing the status quo games.

Now Capano is writing for Brooklyn Courier and his first article was fair to Gentile (especially coming from a Republican/former opponent) and it was a decent read as well. Maybe Capano will shine the light on politicians in Bay Ridge who are playing politics and using their seat for their own benefit."

It all ends for sure on January 1, 2019. The only question is does he last that long. Health issues and legal issues mean more health issues. And the drinking, OMG, the drinking, but isn't that a health issue too?

"Senator of Life," when it comes to Marty Golden that ain't no guarantee of anything.

As to comment at 542, I havent heard from Eaton but saw pictures on FB that he has spent the last few weeks in Aruba. Not bad...two weeks in Aruba while you guys post about him, Capano, Cats and Ghorra on your computers alone at night...

There's been no bigger waste of time than 'our' state senator Marty Golden, unless you count all the cash in his pockets. There's been a lot a makin hay while the sun shines for the good old Martster goin back to his days in Vice.

I just read another one of those silly John Quaglione quotes on the KIngs County Politics blog.

It seems that "Q" thinks that he twice had won elections in the 46th AD, once in a primary and once in a general election. Maybe I missed it, but was John Quaglione ever elected to the NYS Assembly from the 46th AD?

If that's true, then all I can say is this: "Run, John, run!" If not, well, that's par for the course for JQ.

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I formerly have commented on various political blogs concerning Republican politics. Although the focus of my political commentary has been on the Brooklyn GOP and other aspects of politics in Brooklyn, I have also posted commentary about national matters.
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